Credit Suisse finalises four-strong global legal panel
Credit Suisse has finalised its global legal panel with four firms winning spots on the Swiss bank’s lineup, The Lawyer understands.
Bonuses for all: Ashurst makes entire workforce eligible for first time
Ashurst is making the finishing touches to its new bonus scheme for staff worldwide, meaning all employees will be eligible for a reward for the first time.
Good news for Slaughters female associates: Pay gap stats show women out-earn men
Slaughter and May female associates were paid 2 per cent more on average than their male counterparts as the firm becomes the latest to publish results.
Addleshaws gender pay gap: women get 33% less bonus pay
Addleshaw Goddard has posted its gender pay gap data showing that female staff receive 33.3 per cent less in median bonus pay than men.
Romania and GDPR: Key proposed measures
Polish tax evasion rules – Impact on escrow agreements
To counteract tax evasion, Polish authorities have recently introduced legislation and digital systems allowing tax authorities to analyse banking systems, search for potential fraud, and block suspicious bank accounts. Effective 30 April 2018, the new rules may have an adverse effect on escrow accounts, M&A closings, and real estate transactions in Poland. This client alert […]
Warsaw: Management liability in M&A transactions
By Niall Crowley Increased volatility on financial markets is putting pressure on company management teams when setting valuations in M&A transactions, according to experts gathered at a seminar held by international law firm Wolf Theiss…
New EU regulation: The end of geo-blocking when shopping online
A new EU Regulation, which will take effect on 3 December 2018, provides for borderless online shopping. Traders are obliged to treat online customers equally, regardless of which EU-member state they come from. Geo-blocking will be abolished in many cases. However, digital content protected under copyright law and some other services are not yet affected […]
Bulgaria: Commission recommends amendments to the energy act
On 8 February 2018, the Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission (“CPC”) issued a Decision in a Competition Advocacy proceeding initiated in 2017 for the assessment of conformity with Competition law of the legal framework applicable to heat energy supply legislation. The Competition Advocacy proceeding analyzed the respective sections of the Energy Act (“EA”), the Heat Energy […]
Bulgaria joins EU anti-money laundering club
The Bulgarian Parliament has adopted the Anti-Money Laundering Act. The Act transposes Directive (EU) 2015/848 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financings…
Credit Suisse finalises four-strong global legal panel
Credit Suisse has finalised its global legal panel with four firms winning spots on the Swiss bank’s lineup, The Lawyer understands.
Bonuses for all: Ashurst makes entire workforce eligible for first time
Ashurst is making the finishing touches to its new bonus scheme for staff worldwide, meaning all employees will be eligible for a reward for the first time.
Good news for Slaughters female associates: Pay gap stats show women out-earn men
Slaughter and May female associates were paid 2 per cent more on average than their male counterparts as the firm becomes the latest to publish results.
Addleshaws gender pay gap: women get 33% less bonus pay
Addleshaw Goddard has posted its gender pay gap data showing that female staff receive 33.3 per cent less in median bonus pay than men.
The Lawyer European Awards: Kromann Reumert triumphs as Law Firm of the Year
Danish firm Kromann Reumert was crowned European Law Firm of the Year last night at The Lawyer European Awards.
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Akin Gump bets big on transatlantic offering with four-partner hire
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has snared a four-partner financial restructuring and global debt team from Morgan Lewis, in a move that reunites them with their former Bingham McCutchen colleagues. The hires include two heads of practice, with Morgan Lewis’ City transactional finance head Thomas O’Connor joining Akin Gump in London. Partner trio Renée Dailey, Christopher Lawrence […]
Slaughters extends fintech incubator with £300k already handed out
Slaughter and May has expanded the scope of its legal incubation scheme for start-ups, with plans to provide legal services to a more diverse range of technology businesses. The firm has opened its third round of applications for the Fast Forward programme, which had initially been set up to support fintech start-ups. The firm now […]
Law firms called out for leaving websites open to hackers
While the majority of law firms today have practices dedicated to cyber security, not all of them have websites that are secure, according to new findings published today. The findings, released by Trustify, claims that over 10 per cent of the top 200 law firms in the UK do not have secure websites, including four […]
A&O wins top mandate for Vue Cinemas on German acquisition
HSF and A&O are advising on cinema chain Vue’s acquisition of German brand CineStar for nearly £200m.
Osborne Clarke reels in Bird & Bird’s UK tax head
Bird & Bird’s head of UK tax Mathew Oliver has joined Osborne Clarke’s London office; the latest in a string of new recruits to the latter’s City operations. Oliver has been at Bird & Bird since 2005, joining as a partner from Lovells where he was an associate for three years. He was a tax […]
Landmark ruling upheld as DWF loses data breach appeal for Morrisons
DWF has lost its appeal for Morrisons in the High Court today, as it was ruled that the supermarket is legally responsible for an enormous data breach affecting over 100,00 employees. Three senior judges, including the Master of the Rolls, upheld the original decision against the supermarket, issued in December 2017. In what was the UK’s first data protection class […]